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Hospice Educators ‘Planting Seeds’ Among High School Students

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The Harley School is seeking to inspire a new generation of hospice professionals to enter the field with educational programs that highlight the meaningful work involved in end-of-life care delivery. Prince is also a licensed clinical social worker and an adjunct professor at the State University of New York Brockport.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. And so she had all that experience, but yeah, she was a larger than life presence.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

Daniel eventually passed away about eight years ago, but not before he was placed on that trach and peritoneal dialysis and feeding tube and many other interventions and, all the while, not really focusing on what he wanted as a good quality of life. We aren’t learning their needs.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care. So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. Alex 00:07 We do. Welcome back, Anne.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

What separates Hospice from Home Health is the type of medical care the patient receives from each service. For instance, Home Health Care may be considered for rehabilitation or to prevent hospitalization. Hospice is indicated for end of life care for patients with a terminal illness. What Is Hospice Care?

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Episode 31: Facing Our Fear of Death

Living With Hospice

I'm not a social worker. I do have a lot of experience with hospice care, death and dying. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff. I'm not a nurse. How cool was that?

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